Saturday, March 23, 2019

Hamlet: A Man of Many Qualities :: Shakespeare Hamlet Essays

hamlet A Man of Many Qualities   small town is a man of many different qualities and he reveals only realqualities to certain people.  Hamlet draws his audience, the reader, intonoticing the different qualities that he has.  His qualities are shown byhis conversations with other display cases as well as through his soliloquies.These words of wisdom and revealance help to signal how Hamlet feels abouteach other character that he encounters.  The phrases and speeches that Hamletaddresses are both poetic and piercing.  So when Hamlet is speaking, he isconstantly revealing his qualities which range from love, to respect, to hate.Hamlets most powerful qualities seem to be revealed through his conversationwith the people that he cares about, namely his family and friends. The queen, Gertrude, is hamlets father and she is probably the lifetime beingthat he cares about the most.  Unfortunately, one of Hamlets qualities, whichis revealed in conversatio n with his mother, is a negative one and that is anger. His quality is displayed through Hamlets soliloquy in movement 1, Scene 2, Lines131 161.  Hamlet is angry at his mother for marrying a in the altogether husband, his uncle,Claudius, so quickly after his fathers death.  This anger shines through in such phrases such as Frailty, thy name is woman(Act 1,Sc 2, L148) and LikeNiobe, all tears.(Act 1, Sc 2, L151).  At the end of his soliloquy, Hamletswitches qualities from one of anger to one of fear.  This is unmixed whenHamlet states, With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, and It is not, norit crappernot come to good, and in the end But break my heart, for I must hold mytongue(Act 1, Sc 2 L157 161).  Hamlet expresses his fear for his mothershasty marriage.  Hamlet realizes that his mother marrying his uncle can have nogood result.  Respect is another quality that Hamlet displays in conversationwith his mother.  This occurs when his mother ask s him to remain at home alternativelythan return to school(Act 1, Sc 2, L120121), which he agrees to do. This showsthat although he disagrees with his mother and her marriage, after such littlemourning for her husband, Hamlet Sr.s, death, he still respects his mother andwill do what she asks. Later in the act, Hamlet encounters another character who goes by the name ofHoratio.  Horatio is a good friend, as stated in Act 1, Sc 2, L163, and thefirst quality which Hamlet reveals is his respect for Horatio.  In line 176 ofAct 1, Sc 2, Hamlet states I know you are no truant.

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